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OEMpocalypse: Unprivileged Android app to root on Samsung, Xiaomi, others(calif.io)
103 points by negura 3d ago|63 comments
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by negura 3d ago
it means what she explains it means in the article
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Cory Doctorow Says Be Skeptical of the AI Sales Pitch(bloomberg.com)
7 points by negura 6d ago|0 comments
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by negura 7d ago
I really believe they would sink so low and pay him to quit and post this, just to generate a bit more hype before the IPO.
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Europe's largest carbon capture facility opens in the Netherlands(yara.com)
18 points by negura 9d ago|10 comments
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by negura 12d ago
Not a week goes by without Meta reconfirming it's the company of choice for scumbags.
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Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions(nvd.nist.gov)
805 points by negura 12d ago|513 comments
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by negura 12d ago
> It's "move fast and break things" in action. what would the world's reaction be if China's model did same?
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by negura 12d ago
I'm so baffled. First blatant piracy, now this. Why is it legal for AI companies to hack unaffiliated entities? Genuinely, what is the legal framework here?
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OpenAI agents hijacked German website in previously undisclosed AI breakout(reuters.com)
95 points by negura 12d ago|2 comments
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US Military turns off ad trackers on devices amid Middle East targeting reports(reuters.com)
11 points by negura 12d ago|2 comments
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by negura 13d ago
There is even a use case at the end which tracks which songs are currently trending. You basically get access to all of TikTok's data. If you don't see why analytics on this data are so valuable, lookup varoufaki's concept of
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by negura 13d ago
Very impressive figuring out all 4 checks. I'm not even sure this was reverse engineered, rather than leaked. I wish it mentioned anything about the methodology they used
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by negura 15d ago
This is what they mean when they say AI amplifies inequality. If you're technically competent, you just write yourself an extension to block the slop spam, or at least pay to install one. So in the end it's rotting much more the b
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by negura 15d ago
Cloudflare is a vile company, who has destroyed large parts of the web and is almost certainly involved with intelligence agencies. Buying Firefox would push away what users they have left (many of which are due to Torbrowser)
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by negura 15d ago
Because it's a statistical model of the words used in similar problem domains.
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Bespoke Synth: open-source modular synthesizer/DAW for Linux, Mac & Windows(bespokesynth.com)
1 points by negura 16d ago|0 comments
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by negura 16d ago
https://www.bespokesynth.com/
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by negura 16d ago
what are you on about? The fact Qubes has to exist proves Linux is insecure. QubesOS is not a Linux distro. It just happens to ship dom0 as a Fedora VM. But it doesn't just support Linux, it also supports Windows and BSDs. None of Qu
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by negura 16d ago
> What about my proposed psychosis would make the tests go green when it implements something complex in one shot? Nothing. That's why it's a psychosis. It has nothing to do with the reality of how language models generate word
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by negura 17d ago
> I would not have copied anything from dom0 to any another qube, the impact is low. You'd typically copy logs, to open issue tickets etc.
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by negura 17d ago
it's not right nor wrong, it's irrelevant. this exploit has nothing to do with the Xen hypervisor which underlies the virtualization in QubesOS
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by negura 18d ago
Maybe get yourself checked for chatbot psychosis. I am using current models productively, every day, and have 0 (and I mean precisely, literally 0) issue with calling it a stochastic parrot, one which lacks any kind of mentality whatsoever.
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by negura 18d ago
I started using the Internet because of the convenience it offered. Now that convenience is gone. Due to ads, surveillance, toxicity, misinformation, slop.. It just isn't worth being online anymore. So instead, now I read books, me
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by negura 21d ago
> Whatever harm US (software) tech has dished out, it has also dished out domestically. Are you saying that, because Big Tech is harming the mental health of American children, this is supposed to redeem the situation somehow? Or are you
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by negura 22d ago
> find a way to make anything like the average income of any of us on HN a) This is not about trying to protect the incomes of people working in Big Tech b) In his talk Doctorow gives examples of business opportunities that are actually
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by negura 22d ago
Middle powers should heed Cory Doctorow's advice [0] and start offering legal protection in their jurisdictions for precisely this type of projects. America is a hostile nation, who has sought to align everyone with its interests, unde
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by negura 29d ago
i realized for me the convenience just isn't there anymore. the ads, surveillance, toxicity, misinformation, slop. it's just not worth being online anymore. read a book, meet with people, attend talks, go to a museum...
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Tether Clears First Full Audit from KPMG Without Publishing the Statements(thedefiant.io)
2 points by negura 1mo ago|0 comments
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by negura 1mo ago
im not american. i'm not even from a western country. but as a bystand observer, it's a bit late to start a conversation with republicans on social media. after cancelling them for years. you reap what you saw. you never cared abo

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